2016 ends with 762 homicides in Chicago; 2017 doesn't look like it will get better

[TexasTowelie]

2016 ends with 762 homicides; 2017 opens with fatal Uptown gunfight

An argument between two men at an Uptown bar in the early hours of Jan. 1 ended with the two shooting at one another, leaving both dead.

Their deaths ushered in the new year, marking the first and second homicides of 2017 and keeping up 2016’s pace of violence – levels that haven’t marred the city for 20 years.

By the time police were dispatched to the double homicide at 4:30 a.m. there had already been an officer-involved shooting, according to Chicago police. A man who led police on a car chase, before physically resisting arrest, ultimately was shot by an officer before 3 a.m. That man, whose name was not released and for whom a warrant was issued, was in critical condition Sunday.

The last homicide in 2016 came before 1 p.m. Saturday when a 24-year-old, whose name has not been released, was killed in South Austin in a possible road rage act that may have been retaliation for hitting another driver’s Mercedes. According to data from the Chicago Police Department, his death became the 762nd homicide for the year – the most since 1996, when there were 796.

Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-two-shot-to-death-in-uptown-marks-first-homicide-of-2017-20170101-story.html

2017 opens with 3 killed, 16 wounded after violent 2016 has its last homicide on New Year's Eve

Three people were killed and 16 others were wounded during the first six hours of the year as the city ended a year that brought levels of violence that had not been seen in the city since the 1990s.

In total, four people were killed and 24 other people were wounded in separate shootings from New Year's Eve to early Sunday.
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Around 2:30 a.m. an unnamed man was shot by a Chicago police officer, authorities said at a news conference Sunday, about 12 hours after the shooting. They reported that a man led cops on a car chase and physically resisted once he was finally stopped. The man, who is in critical condition, was shot after a scuffle, police said.

About two hours later, two men were killed in the year's first fatal shooting, which took place at 4:25 a.m. Sunday in the 4600 block of North Broadway in the city's Uptown neighborhood on the North Side.

Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-chicago-shootings-violence-20161231-story.html

[Chasstev365]

1. Why does the illegal gun flow from Indiana rarely get mentioned as a contributing factor ?

Some asshole is allowed to buy 300 handguns at a gun show (no questions asked), file off the serials numbers and then they wind up on the South Side of Chicago. That's messed up, but the NRA owns both the Republican and Democratic parties.